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Report Reference Report Mountain and rural economies under pressure: Identifying global and national challenges for sustainable economic development in mountain and rural areas in Switzerland MAYER, Heike, et al. & Secrétariat d'Etat à l'économie SECO Abstract Input paper for the Swiss strategy for development of mountain regions and rural areas. It identifies the main challenges for mountain and rural regions from a European perspective. It complements these insights with an analysis of particular challenges for mountain and rural regions in Switzer-land. The paper proposes the following six overarching challenges: 1) Global competition, innovation pressures and structural changes in the economy of mountain and rural areas; 2) Increasing social and cultural heterogeneity; 3) Sustainability of physical and social infrastructure investments; 4) Changing framework conditions for the exploitation of environmental goods and serves and the impacts of climate change; 5) Increasing physical and functional interdependence of rural and urban areas; 6) Increasing institutional complexity for coordinating sectoral policies. Reference MAYER, Heike, et al. & Secrétariat d'Etat à l'économie SECO. Mountain and rural economies under pressure: Identifying global and national challenges for sustainable economic development in mountain and rural areas in Switzerland. Berne : Secrétariat d'Etat à l'économie SECO, 2013, 39 p. Available at: http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:78570 Disclaimer: layout of this document may differ from the published version. 1 / 1 Bern and Geneva, 14. März 2013 Challenges for mountain and rural areas in Switzerland Input Papier 1 Institute of Geography Economic Geography Group Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED) Mountain and rural economies un- der pressure: Identifying global and national challenges for sustainable economic development in mountain and rural areas in Switzerland Input paper 1 submitted to the strategy group This Input paper reflects the opinion of the authors. Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer Institute of Geography & Center for Regional Economic Development, Universität Bern Dr. Daniel Baumgartner Institute of Geography & Center for Regional Economic Development, Universität Bern / Ernst Basler + Partner AG, Zurich Dr. Eric Gløersen Departement de Géographie et de Environnement, Université Genève Dr. Jaques Michelet Departement de Géographie et de Environnement, Université Genève Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer Professor of Economic Geography Hallerstrasse 12 CH-3012 Bern [email protected] www.geography.unibe.ch\eg Bern and Geneva, 14. März 2013 Challenges for mountain and rural areas in Switzerland Inputpaper 1 Abstract In recent years, mountain and rural regions were exposed to substantial socio-economic challenges. These challenges are not only rooted in changing economic framework conditions (such as, e.g., de- clines in the agriculture and the production sectors as main pillars of rural employment, the increasing global competition in tourism) and socio-demographic changes (such as, e.g., an increasingly ageing population, out-migration of highly qualified human capital or heterogeneity of social structures). In addi- tion, changing environmental framework conditions (such as, e.g., the impacts of climate change, the rising economic relevance of natural resources or increasing conflicts regarding land use) and a shift in the paradigm of regional development policies for peripheral regions (from a centralized, top-down do- nor-recipient model to a decentralized, bottom-up growth-oriented model) considerably challenge sus- tainable development of mountain and rural regions across Europe and Switzerland. In this paper, we identify the main challenges for mountain and rural regions from a European perspective. We comple- ment these insights with an analysis of particular challenges for mountain and rural regions in Switzer- land. The paper eventually proposes the following six overarching challenges: 1) Global competition, innovation pressures and structural changes in the economy of mountain and rural areas; 2) Increasing social and cultural heterogeneity; 3) Sustainability of physical and social infrastructure investments; 4) Changing framework conditions for the exploitation of environmental goods and serves and the impacts of climate change; 5) Increasing physical and functional interdependence of rural and urban areas; 6) Increasing institutional complexity for coordinating sectoral policies. We consider these overarching challenges as particularly pertinent for the development of a strategy for mountain and rural regions in Switzerland (“Strategie des Bundes für ländliche Räume und das Berggebiet”). The paper closes with a note about the decision taken by the strategy group at their meeting on March 7, 2013. The group modi- fied the challenges and framework conditions and decided to work with the 12 detailed challenges in the remainder of this strategy process. Seite 2/39 Bern and Geneva, 13. März 2013 Challenges for mountain and rural areas in Switzerland Input paper 1 Outline 1. INTRODUCTION 4 2. BASIC CONCEPTS AND DATA SOURCES 5 3. PRESSURES ON MOUNTAIN AND RURAL ECONOMIES: THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE 7 3.1 Economic pressures on sustainable development of EU/OECD mountain and rural areas 7 3.1.1 Phenomenon 1: Structural changes and decline in employment in the agricultural sector 7 3.1.2 Phenomenon 2: Structural changes in the manufacturing sector and emergence of a knowledge society 8 3.1.3 Phenomenon 3: Tourism challenges: Global competition, climate change and innovations for sustainability 9 3.1.4 Phenomenon 4: Increased mobility of goods and persons, combined with ‘tunnel effects’ in Alpine and rural areas 11 3.1.5 Phenomenon 5: Increasing importance of research and development, innovation, entrepreneurship for economic success 13 3.2 Societal pressures on sustainable development of EU/OECD mountain and rural areas 14 3.2.1 Phenomenon 6: Demographic changes, ageing and brain drain 14 3.2.2 Phenomenon 7: (Trans)national migratory movements 15 3.3 Environmental pressures on sustainable development of EU/OECD mountain and rural areas 16 3.3.1 Phenomenon 8: Future increase in the economic relevance of renewable natural resources 16 3.3.2 Phenomenon 9: Direct and indirect effects of climate change 17 3.3.3 Phenomenon 10: Metropolisation and its multiple effects in mountain and rural areas 18 3.4 Challenges for governing sustainable development in EU/OECD mountain and rural areas 20 3.4.1 Phenomenon 11: The ‘shift in paradigm’ in regional policy making 20 3.4.2 Phenomenon 12: Increasing institutional complexity regarding spatial development 21 4. PRESSURES ON MOUNTAIN AND RURAL ECONOMIES: THE SWISS PERSPECTIVE 23 4.1 Particular framework conditions for the development of mountain and rural economies in Switzerland 23 4.1.1 Condition 1: Governance: Strong federalism, horizontal coordination and direct democracy 23 4.1.2 Condition 2: Spatial heterogeneity: Small scales and a distinctive topography 24 4.1.3 Condition 3: international interdependence: political unilateralism vs. an open and globally interlinked economy 25 4.2 Specific pressures on sustainable development of mountain and rural areas in Switzerland 26 5. SUMMARY AND EXPERTS` RECOMMENDATION 29 6. CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK 31 7. REFERENCES 32 8. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 39 Seite 3/39 Bern and Geneva, 13. März 2013 Challenges for mountain and rural areas in Switzerland Input paper 1 1. Introduction On June 10, 2012, the Swiss parliament accepted a motion of state councillor T. Maissen. This so called motion Maissen1 commissions the federal council to develop a coherent strategy for moun- tain and rural in Switzerland. Through the development and adoption of such a strategy, the Swiss federation aims to reshape its current policy framework for economic development in mountain and rural areas2. Yet, with this endeavour, Switzerland does not stand alone in Europe and within the OECD countries. Most of these countries recently begun to refocus policies regarding spatial and economic development in peripheral areas: The OECD, for example, drafted a “new rural para- digm” in 2006 to support economic growth and development in rural areas in developed countries (OECD 2006). The Alpine convention started a process for developing an integrated strategy for the Alpine region in 2012 (Gloersen et al. 2012). Also at the European level, new strategies and instruments, such as, e.g., the LEADER program (Ray 2006), have been implemented for support- ing sustainable rural development (Ward & Brown 2009). The common objective of these policy instruments and strategies is to support sustainable devel- opment or regional resilience in areas outside the economic growth poles of a country. Yet, in mountain and rural areas the physical and socio-economic conditions may differ significantly (Ter- liuin 2003; Tödtling & Trippl 2005). These differences might be seen as an opportunity to design territorially specific policies for sustainably developing resilient mountain and rural regions. To de- sign such territorially specific policies, the OECD (2006) argues that there is a need for a coherent normative ‘vision’ towards which political actions must be oriented. In Switzerland, there is neither a coherent vision nor a strategy at the federal level for economic and spatial development in mountain and rural areas. In this paper, the baseline for the develop- ment of such a vision and a federal strategy for mountain and rural areas will be elaborated. The goal of the paper is to identify
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